Quality Improvement University: January - March 2019

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Target Audience

Physicians, Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, and Nurses

Description

Quality Improvement University ("QI University") is an educational venue established by the Atrium Health-Urgent Care Division to ensure that its physicians have access to standardized processes and medical evidenced based materials for its Advanced Clinical Practitioners ("ACP") to utilize for achievement of practice readiness and clinical competency for certain core practices and procedures required in the practice of urgent care medicine. QI University can be utilized for the fulfillment of the quality improvement process that is required by the North and South Carolina State Medical Boards, in the collaborative relationship between the primary supervising physician and his/her State Medical Board assigned ACP(s).

Speaker:
James P. Griggs, MD

This includes:
January 2019 – Pediatric Red Eye
February 2019 – Community Acquired Pneumonia
March 2019 – Common Cold in Urgent Care

Original Release Date: May 30, 2019
Valid Thru: May 31, 2021

Objectives

• Review causes of red eye in pediatrics
• Discuss best way to examine a child's eye
• Review red flags that may indicate there is something more serious than just "pink eye"
• Review Article in Ophthalmology 2017 Aug; 124 (8):1099-1107. Title of Article is "Antibiotic Prescription Fills for Acute Conjunctivitis among Enrollees in a Large United States Managed Care Network"
• Differentiate what is "run of the mill conjunctivitis" vs "badness" that needs to be referred to Ophthalmology or ED and briefly discuss trauma with signs and symptoms that need referral
• Discuss basic guidelines of how to treat Community Acquired Pneumonia
• Discuss the CURB-65 criteria
• Review article in Clinical Infectious Disease-initial oral antibiotic in ED setting was just as effective as IV antibiotics when treating CAP as outpatient
• Define the common cold
• Define what is not the common cold
• Discuss best practices to prevent getting common cold
• Discuss best treatment or recommendations for patients presenting with the common cold
• Discuss what question(s) to ask when HIV patient presents to urgent care with common cold
• Review article that simple water gargling was effective in preventing upper respiratory tract infections among healthy people

Contact

Tamara Smith-Tillman BS

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